Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early ...

Mini USA looks set to take a world lead in fuel efficiency with its April 1st announcement. It's no April Fools joke, but they gave information on its new magnetic propulsion system that will extend ...

The SharkFin Magnetic Sail looks to go beyond the Zubrin Magnetic sail with the Lorentz Force law, Faraday’s law, and Lenz’s law to harvest propulsive force and electrical charge from large scale ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

What is it about concepts that people love so much? Some seem to showcase technology beyond belief, while others show us what’s possible in terms of style. Folks, what you see in the cover photo is ...

A student-built CubeSat from the University of Michigan will investigate whether small satellites can be maintained in low Earth orbit without thrusters or propellant. Scheduled to launch from the ...

(Nanowerk News) Magnetic propulsion is highly promising for powering biomedical micro/nanorobots due to its noninvasive remote actuation and convenient navigation abilities. Recent advances in ...

A research team realized magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics in laser-produced plasmas and measured the pure electron outflows. Their findings will be applied not only to space and ...

(A) Illustration of the soft microswimmer with a single microbubble. (B) Illustration of CeFlowBots with bubble arrays. (C) Illustration of the microbubble-aided microrobots. (D) Illustration of the ...

Magnetic Engines has converted a CFM International CFM56-5B engine from a double annular combustor configuration to the original single annular combustor version as one of several special projects ...